Re: FN-FORUM how to create chrome

date posted 29th June 2002 19:03


Thanks for that Jim,
Im sure it will prove very valuble.I have been waiting for a reply for days, dont no whats going on with the forum.Once agin thanks for your time and I will try and do it tonight.
Cheers
Phil

>From: Jim Ratcliffe [EMAIL REMOVED]
>Reply-To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
>To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
>Subject: Re: FN-FORUM how to create chrome
>Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 15:47:31 +0000
>
>on 26/06/2002 18:05, phil radford at [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>
>Hi all,
>Im trying to create some chrome effects but the filter in photoshop is not
>really good enough.
>I want it to be like www.whoswe.com
>They have really cracked the chrome look.How is it done? Is it a certain
>software?
>Phil
>
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>Hi everyone, Phil, forget Photoshop 'chrome' filter but do not forget
>Photoshop. See below to discover how great photoshop is.
>
>1) Open a new doc in RGB mode. Set 25% grey as your foreground colour.
>Create your shape or logo or typeface (whatever it is you're working on - if
>it is type, you should choose a large point size)
>
>2) If you use Type, then choose LAYER>RASTERIZE. Then, in the Layers
>palette, make a copy of this layer by dragging it to the new layers icon at
>the bottom. Set your foreground colour to 50%grey, and press
>shift-option-delete (PC shift-alt-backspace) to fill this layer with 50%
>grey. Press V to switch to the move tool.
>
>3) Press the right arrow key on your keyboard five times then the down key
>five times to nudge the darker grey right and down. In the layers pallette
>drag this layer directly below the lighter layer. Then click on the lighter
>layer in the layers palette to make it active. Press Command-E (PC
>Control-E) to merge the two layers.
>
>4) Press m to switch to the rectangular marquee tool. Drag a thin selection
>( four or five pixels - it's up to you to judge how much contrast you want
>in the chrome effect -then hold down the shift key and drag some more thin &
>slightly thicker rectangles across your text or shape).
>
>5) Go under Select menu and choose FEATHER. Enter 20 pixels for lo-res
>(web) image or 20 pixels for hi-res (print) image, click OK.
>
>6) Press COMMAND-L (PC CONTROL-L) to bring up LEVELS dialogue box. Grab the
>bottom right OUTPUT slider and drag it left until the readout shows 64.
>Click OK.
>
>7) Press the down arrow 8 times to move the selections downwards. Press
>Command-I (PC CONTOL-I) to invert the selection.
>
>8) Press Command-L (PC CONTROL-L) to bring up LEVELS again. Grab the top
>right INPUT slider and grag until the readout shows 140. Click OK. Click
>Command-D (PC CONTROL-D) to deselect.
>
>9) Under LAYER>LAYER STYLE choose BEVEL & EMBOSS. Increase depth to 500% and
>size to 8 ( for hi-res -print work use 800% and size 25)
>
>10) In the layers palette create a new layer and dragit just below your text
>(or shape) layer. Press Command-E (PC CONTROL-E) to merge the layers.
>
>11) Press Command-M (PC CONTROL-M) to bring up the CURVES dialogue
>box.you'll se a straight line at a 45 degree angle. Click onthe point where
>this line intersects with the top-right corner of the first box at the
>bottom (it's really a grid divided into 16 boxes so the box you want you can
>count as number 13 -With very top left being number 1) Okay now you've
>created a point on the top right of box 13, drag it upward (not left or
>right) to the middle of box 5. (You're going to add 3 more points to create
>a curve like a healthy heart-monitor readout or a up-down wave with up-s and
>downs of equal length). On the line, click a new point on the intersection
>(top right) of box 6 and drag downward to box 14. Click on the line again
>and drag upward to box 3. Click on the line again and drag down the middle
>of box 12. This should give you a smooth wave shape like two (chlidlike)
>mountains, or a pair of (very childlike) tits of a woman lying on her back.
>('Mine don't stand up like that' - says the missus) Click OK.
>
>12) Press Command-L (CONTROL-L) to bring up LEVELS. Grab the top right INPUT
>(at he bottom of the spiky diagram) slider and drag left until the readout
>shows 225 (this brightens the chrome) Click OK.
>
>13) Go FILTER>SHARPEN>UNSHARP MASK and drag AMOUNT 500, RADIUS 10. Click OK.
>(For hi-res images repeat this step once more).
>
>14) Go LAYER>LAYER STYLE, and choose DROP SHADOW. Set SIZE to 10, DISTANCE
>10. click OK (For hi-res set SIZE 45 & DISTANCE 30)
>
>That's it, just experiment with the sliders to get different effects. The
>above, by the way, was culled from 'PHOTOSHOP 6 DOWN & DIRTY TRICKS' (an
>excellent little book for picking up new stuff) but it works in P/shop 5.
>Good luck and all the best.
>Jim.
>
>
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